4th Circuit rules for school that nixed child's essay on acceptance of transgender people
Image from Shutterstock.com. A federal appeals court has ruled for an elementary school that removed a 10-year-old girl's essay on acceptance of transgender people from an essay collection placed in the classroom and distributed to parents. In a March 2 opinion, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Virginia, said the South Carolina school and its principal had properly exercised their authority to regulate school-sponsored student speech. The girl had written: “I don’t know if you know this but peoples view on tran’s genders is an issue. People think that men should not drees like a women, and saying mean things. They think that they are choosing the wrong thing in life. In the world people can choose who they want to be not being told that their diction is wrong. I hope people understand that people can hurt themselves from others hurting their feelings. People need to think before they speak because one word can hurt someone’s feelings. We need to fix this because this is getting out of hand!”